Its been rare these days to catch one pure BNSF lashup on CSX's River Sub. Today there were three!!
BNSF 9208 is on K-141, empty crude oil tanks from Philadelphia at Blauvelt, NY 12/27/2016
CSX 5444 is on Q-273 empty auto racks from Doremus Ave in Newark, NJ at Blauvelt, NY 12/27/2016
CSX 7752 is on Q-434, a manifest freight from Newark, NJ to Albany, NY at Blauvelt, NY 12/27/2016
Nearly new BNSF 3889 is on K-140, crude oil for Philadelphia at Blauvelt, NY 12/27/2016
BNSF 3766 is on Q-158, an intermodal train from Chicago to South Kearney, NJ at Blauvelt, NY 12/27/2016
CSX 5105 is on K-495, an ethanol train, not sure of the destination at Blauvelt, NY 12/27/2016
Enjoy!
Channelling my Elena Scrooge. Just not feeling the holiday. Its just my mother and I which is the equivalent of being alone. I shall spend this night and the rest of the day tomorrow in bed and hopefully sleep through all of it. I hate holidays anymore.
I am very upset tonight. I have lost one of my closest friends. I am sitting at my usual spot in Ridgefield Park and he passes by and doesn't even wave. Then he passes again and doesn't wave. I then go into my friends list on Facebook and see that he has unfriended me so I have blocked him. Fuck him! This is just what I didn't need especially this time of year.
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but look at the friends you gained lately. I rather have one or two very close friends then ones who fakely be friends with. If you have a few close friendships that you become a rock for each other, that you can talk to no matter the subject matter, i have seen, outweighs unlimited number of people who pretend to be your friend, just like the one who unfriended you on fb.
I am sad that this person waited till now to do this thou.
Yep. Don't let it spoil your holiday. Turn the other cheek.
I am really feeling dysphoric tonight. I know I have a lovely face, but I have the bone structure of a football linebacker. My bra band is 52 inches. FIFTY TWO FUCKING INCHES!! No woman has a bust that big. If only there were an operation to narrow the whole upper body, but there isnt so I will never pass as a woman. I just want to cry.
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yes there is a woman with a 52 inch bust....you. who says all us are the same size?
Thanks for your kind words Robin. The thing is I saw a photo of a MTF trans girl who began her transition as a teen and she looks 100% female. I of course got jealous and the dysphoria set in. I often have a lot of regret that I didnt transition much younger, say in my late teens to early 20's before everything became set in stone.
This might be a bad example..... but i hope it goes to you in good thoughts that its never too late for anything.
Caitlyn Jenner aka bruce Jenner. He waited till late in his life to change from male to female.
to each they travel a road different then anyone else. no two road are alike. But the point is and always will be, making you happy on who you are inside. everyone else be damned.
I know I have always been different and I know it had to have started in the womb. I have never been athletic, I would always giggle when my uncle would try to teach me how to fight. I was always the last kid picked for whatever team for whaver sport was being played in gym. I developed gynocomastia very early at the age of 10. I took to my mothers knee highs at the age of 5. When I hit puberty, it was pure hell. I hate the changes that were happening to me even though I didnt understand them. So ya think maybe things got screwed up in the womb?? The only reason I think I fell into the male role is because gender norms were strictly enforced when I was a child.. I think if given the choice to wear pants or a skirt back then, I would have chosen the skirt. Now I am 46 and I have to undo 33 years of testosterone poisoning. If only I could have been put on T blockers prior to puberty and then hormones when I turned 16.
I know some of you think I have become quite the drama queen as of late and maybe I have. But this isnt something I can control. It has everything to do with hormones. Thats right. HORMONES. Another older and more experienced trans woman explained to me that my body is essentially going through a second puberty and all the crap that comes with it. I apparently will be going through a lot of mood swings. Hormones change EVERYTHING, not just my body. My thought processes apparently will change and have been. I know for a fact I am more emotional. You see my body is now running on a different fuel and it has to get used to it and I have to learn to live my life in a new way and that sometimes can be overwhelming, especially when I have to function as my old self. All of this can be very frightening and confusing. Its most frightening and confusing at the beginning of a persons transition. Things are changing but we dont know why or how. It feels great but its frightening and confusing all at the same time. Its even more frightening when you dont have a support system in place or fail to ask for help from that support system. This is normal and all a part of becoming a woman. So please, if I get whiny or depressed and seem like a drama queen, have some patience with me? Eventually this will all even out but I surmise there will be a number of more bumps in the road before this is all over.
I am NOT looking forward to the upcoming holiday. It will be only my mother and I which really means only me because mom wont even know what day it is. She will open her presents and be happy for a minute or two and that will be it. It will just be another day. I cannot go and see my father because I really cant leave her alone on Christmas. My mothers brother and sister dont invite us to dinner anymore and they will not be visiting us. So much for family. So if I seem extra grumpy and turn into Elena Scrooge, now you know why. To quote the great Ebeneezer Scrooge, An ant is what it is, and a grasshopper is what it is, and Christmas, Sir, is a humbug, good day.
Tomorrow I have to go down to North Brunswick to fill out forms for financial aid and student loans. This may be the last time I go out in boy mode as I want to finally go full time female. I finally got my first purse as I found out how difficult life can be without one when you dont have any pockets. I had to carry my wallet on my jacket all day Sunday which I wasnt too comfortable with. Unfortunately what they called a "wallet" is nothing more than a change purse so I think I will swap wallets with my mother as she doesnt use hers anymore.
In less than 24 hours I have been called ugly by two fellow trans women. Now I really do feel ugly. I feel like total crap, like I dont even belong on this planet. I was going to go out en-femme today but now I dont think I will. If I am so ugly, I might as well just go out in boy mode. Why am I even bothering to transition? The world doesnt need another ugly woman.
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ok, I know its hard, life is hard. No matter what you or I do.
I am not the prettiest thing on two legs. However, when some one calls me ugly..... its there problem. not mine. Its what matters in your heart that counts. Its how you, yourself react to those round you that you call friends. Like ... BeautifulEnlightenment, and others.
If the people who put you down, calling you names..... just ignor it, and move on. If they are also doing this kind of things online...... no matter the site....... there is ussually block buttons of one form or another to deal with that.
Don't let nut cases make you change your plans of your life. If you want to go out en-femme today. do it. The way i think, those who are calling you names, are just jealous that your doing what makes you happy. And they don't know how to do that yet.
Hands you a rose. You are a beautyfull soul. and you have people rooting for you.
I know its hard to ignore bad things. We've all heard "sticks and stones". Let's go deeper. Eleanor Roosevelt said "Only you can give people the power to hurt your feelings".
Simply put, why value their opinion? Associate yourself with positive people as much as possible and do your best to shield yourself from the haters and naysayers.
Alright lets start with the abnormal thing here...I am the last person anyone would ever see commenting on this but here we go. One fuck what people say or think....the only one who can affect you are the ones who you let affect you. Two remember the Disney movie The hunchback of Notre Dame.....the message in that movie was.....The dis-formed man was the purest of heart and the most beauty of all....he saw the beauty within not the outer. He was kind...gentle...and he saw the monster his master was.....but he did not change or believe he was lowest thing in Paris like his master beat in his head. I know this is probably not a good reference but its the only one that fits.....where beauty is not the outside. Some of the ugliest people on earth hold the best looks on the outside.....some of the best people on earth dont get noticed for they have no outer beauty.....people focus so much on image instead of what counts....Lets take me for example.....no one knows I run several charities a year.....for children...vets....community members who cant pay bills....I help the homeless and soup kitchens....I bake for churches....I would give you the shirt off my back if you needed it....very few people see the beauty inside me they focus on the image that has been painted through anger and jealousy of others but that does not make me stop doing what I do or love. I am me and will always be me....FUCK THE REST OF THE WORLD. Be true to yourself......and stick those who love and support you....block out the negative.....block out the haters.....stay true to you.
Ok i probably should look my own shit but i got irritated by your journal enter so i MUST say few things and then you can get allllll angry at me.
So first of all i HATE absolutely hate when people wanna make other people to feel sorry for them. Will you feel better if i say " oh honey poor you,oh i am so sorry because you give shit what other motherfuckers think about you " Hell no you won't feel better. Is not problem in other people who bulling you .My dear YOU are the main problem because you making problems without no problems. Your life will change when you STOP to give fuck what others no important people think about you.And if you wanna to be happy change your toxic thoughts and think little positively about your self. No person in this world is ugly! You are perfect in way you are!So stop feeling sorry for yourself and talk shit!
You feel like woman? So be the woman! No one can stop you if you don't let them!Don't bother with negative people and love your self! Every morning when you woke up go in front fucking mirror and say "this day is beautiful and i am beautiful " don't let anyone to ruin your day or life! That I'm closer i would come and yell at you dammit! Because you are sooooo depressed and you NEED wake up call!life is short to waste on stupid things! And remember how you treat yourself in that way people will treat you!Never forget that!
And if something going wrong in your life nothing will get better if you sitting there and crying! Move your ass and do something! That's how life works!
And btw ...i don't think that you are ugly.
That's it !I told what i wanted. You can be mad at me or take this like good advice and start to love and respect yourself.
Have nice night /day!
I am no longer crippled with anxiety and depression. Things are better but not 100%. It helped to be in the cam with BE tonight and hopefully being with friends tomorrow (Sat) will make things even better. Never heard from admissions so I have no idea whats going on there. I may be a student, I may not. Hoping for the best and planning for the worst.
Havent had the guts to call admissions and tell them to forget it, so I took the algebra test and I guarantee you I flunked it. Yeah, I get one more attempt but I know I bombed so badly admissions will be the ones to tell me forget it.
I also took the reading test but it doesnt matter. My math will sink me for sure.
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I totally failed the math and the English. I did not retake the math and enrolled in the remedial math class. I retook the English by itself and did fine... YOU need to do the same. TRUST ME there are people that want to help you at school. I did it and so can you! VR is not going to help you other than venting. You can do it, I know you can!!!!!
Here is the thing. I aced the general math admissions test and I know I did reasonably well on the reading comprehension test. The algebra? If I got anything right it was by pure luck. I still have to pass the writing test and I am afraid of that one. Writing has NEVER been my strong suit. I had to take remedial writing classes just so I could pass the HSPT, one of the earliest standardized tests back in the day. The thing is, none of these things have anything to do with the major I am pursuing which is network systems administrator. I am sure I will never need algebra to re-set someone's password, to replace a busted computer terminal or to check faulty connections between terminals and the file server. While I need reading comprehension to read a textbook, I am sure the only writing I will do in the real world is to fill in a bad order ticket or to fill out a shipping document to send broken computers out to be fixed.
Oh college pre test. They are the devil. Hello my name is Sean and I suck at math. Always have. When I took the math test I flunked them big time. Algebra and my mind do not get along at all. Well I said to myself at least I tried college. Then I stopped. I said hold up....I want this. I really want this. So I went to the college and I said I need help here people and lo and behold they told me about this math lab open to students. Darling let me tell you I was at that Math Lab 24/7 to learn basic Algebra and also I found students willing to help me for free to tutor me. Look, You CAN do this. You already did the hardest thing you will ever do in your life if I am not mistaken and that was when you came out. You survived that and even found out you have people who love you. My brain is damaged from an accident I had when I was 6 years old. I mean I have brain damage. I had to REALLY work harder then any other student to learn this stupid math that I would never really use in my career. But I did it. YOU CAN TOO! YOU ARE NOT STUPID. You are an extremely gifted person. Just some of us are better at English them Math. Do not quit. ASK FOR HELP. Find the Math Lab at that school. Reach out and ask for help. Help IS there. I swear if you give up on this... well you CAN'T! You are not alone. you are not the only one gone though this and made it and YOU will pass these test.... you just have to get some help so take your pretty ass to that school and met with the counselor and ask for help with the math part. Tell them you do not know how but you want to know. You want to learn. You got this!!!!!
I was at the math lab 24/7 NO kidding. I had to work harder then any other student there. You are smarter then I am and I did it so can you. I know have a double Major , two BS's. TWO!!!! Next year I go back for my Masters. Math scared me too because it made me feel stupid... but I was not stupid, I just did not know how to do it. Do not give up, please. A lot of us been right where you are and we just had to apply harder then some... and we, I am here, to help you though this, as many others here on VR have said they are here for you too.
YOU CAN DO THIS!
Hey sweetie... I waited til about midnight for you to come on... I did some looking into it that night... Get up with me. We will call the Bursar's office and go from there. I think the advice up above from Poison is good advice. You're not stupid and you're never going to pass with that attitude. You are my best friend. There... I said it, and I don't give a fuck WHO's ass it chaps. I know you better than anyone here and I know what you NEED versus what you want. You need to know that you are one of the most INTELLIGENT people I have EVER met. You need to know that you are 100% CAPABLE of passing this math test. You have the basic knowledge needed to be good at math. Just because you never learned how to do something in the first place does NOT mean you can't do it. It just means you need to learn it so you CAN complete the material. There is a difference between stupidity and ignorance. You are NOT stupid. You're smart and you CAN DO THIS. That's the one thing EVERYONE here is 100% right about. You're definitely smart enough. Do you girl!!! I'm excited for you because I know you're going to pass this your next go around, if you didn't pass it THIS time. Was the algebra the only part you had trouble with? I know there's other arithmetic on there as well. If you need help with any English, let me know. That's what my degree is in and I graduated Cumlaude. :)
Thanks BE and thanks Dakotah!
I may not be on much for awhile. I have been dealing with crippling anxiety and depression. I havent been out of bed all day. I couldnt even call the admissions office to tell them to forget it. It took all day just to be able to get to this point and write a journal. I just feel like so much of a failure I have been posting as much to FB and Twitter from my phone. Its all I can do not to cry. I dont even want to eat and if I do, all I want is garbage. Please dont worry. I will be back eventually, if I can ever get over this.
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I understand the feeling of failure, with my gf moving and no longer having my baby girl everyday I cry a lot. I feel Ive failed as a boyfriend which means also Ive let my daughter down and am a failure to her. I have no money, no car, on disability and its been a struggle to not slip back to old destructive habits. You have friends here that care about you, I KNOW this for a fact. ANd the good side to your problem is that you can do as the other person said, take a math/algebra class first..after that you can go on with your goal. Stay strong, and stay safe.
Thanks Bats!
I tried doing the sample questions for the Algebra part of the admissions test for DeVry and there is no way I can do this. I even tried looking up how to do the equations online and failed miserably. I just cannot make heads or tails of it. In short. I will never go to college. I am a moron. I am poor and always will be. I am really sad and depressed right now. I am at the point where I wish I would go to sleep tonight and not wake up. I am a failure.
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Check it out girlfriend... I am really super smart and really good at math. I got your back. ;)
its not failing to not know, just means there is an extra added step youre gonna have to do first..take a math class somewhere to help teach the math, then push forward to what you want....I am very poor too, it doesnt make us bad people or failures. Just means we dont have as much things at others..stay strong!!
maths was my best subject in high school....you need help?....just message me
listen to what Bats and Mary are saying
I started college at 45 after being out of high school for over 30 years and had never had an algebra class in high school (It wasn't required back in the day) I did terrible on the entry exam and I started with a remedial math class to learn and relearn all of the basics. You can do it!!!
Anyone willing to support me during this extremely difficult time in my life, please place this ribbon in your profile. I could use all the support I can get now that I have trolls attacking me. Thank you to BatsInTheBelphry for making this up this ribbon and kudos to Voelk for coming up with the idea!
Thanks in advance to anyone who shows their support by putting this ribbon in their profile. I love you all!!
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You know that you have my support always. :)
No one should be harassed for things out of their control. You are beautiful and you are loved, no matter what some might say. For every 1 person like that, you have 10 more beside you to prove them wrong. Stay strong, love.
I would like to put it in my profile my friend and dont forget you have always my support aswel.hugs
I am sitting here and contemplating my future. I now know I want sexual reassignment surgery but to do that, I need to lose weight. To that end I am seriously thinking about getting bariatric surgery. I have already been afraid to do this, but if I am afraid of bariatric surgery, how could I face SRS which is an even more complex procedure? I will have to talk to one of my doctors to get the ball rolling.
Seeing my father for the first time after coming out as transgender. Really nervous and anxious. Its probably going to get worse all through the night.
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Keep your chin up and don't show fear. Thinking it'll get worse will turn it into a self fulfilling prophecy. You've got this. If your papa loves you, he'll be okay with whatever makes you happy. :)
Thank you! I will try to keep positive thoughts
And turns out everything went well, right? I'm happy for you sweetie. :)
Today I got a phone call from the pharmacy, my endo FINALLY faxed in a corrected RX for estradiol and added my spironololactone. I am now legitimately on HRT!! YAY!!
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